• Olympian Seb Coe reacts to Merton Council's plans to charge kids to use footy pitches

  By sallysw20

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  By julie_cross at 11:45 on 01/02/12

  

  Olympics chief Seb Coe has told Wimbledon People that he had hoped that the 2012 games would boost sport across the UK, rather than the other way round, after hearing of the possible loss of Saturday morning football for up to 1,700 kids in Merton. After being told of proposals by Merton Council, to start charging individual little leagues in the borough more than £5,000 each to use football pitches, Lord Coe put out a statement...

• Shock as Merton Council tells Wimbledon Little League football charity it will have to pay £5,000 a year if kids want to play on Saturday mornings

  By Winkworth Estate Agents

  It's incredible that this has been suggested when we are constantly being reminded that childhood...

            

   

  By julie_cross at 16:43 on 28/01/12

  

  Wimbledon youngsters have been using football pitches for free for 40 years on a Saturday morning, but now Merton Council says it wants to charge the charity that runs the sessions more than £5,000 a season. The volunteer-run Wimbledon Little League - which provides football for 430 kids aged six to 14 - says it won't be able to afford to run if it has to pay. And, that it will be the children who will suffer if Merton Council...

• Attention Readers – New Wimbledon Book Club

  By KatewJ738434

  Sadly this Bookclub no longer meets and seem only to have started as an advertisement mechanism for...

            

   

  By WimbledonPPL at 08:32 on 26/04/10

  

  In anticipation of the fourth annual Wimbledon Bookfest to be held in October, the organizer of Bookfest are starting a new local book club. The group will get to get together once a month at the HMV Curzon cinema café on the Broadway. At the first meeting, to be held on 18 May, Tracey Chevalier's Remarkable Creatures will be the book under discussion. For more information on the book club email info@wimbledonbookfest.org or...

• Plans to build a five storey block of flats on the former Emma Hamilton pub angers Wimbledon Chase residents

  By Home Hair

  How many more new flats can they build in that area? Surely the shortage of palces in the our...

            

   

  By julie_cross at 13:49 on 23/01/12

  

  Plans to turn the former Emma Hamilton pub into a five storey block of flats, has dismayed Wimbledon Chase residents, who say the site will put extra pressure on oversubscribed schools. Mother-of-two, Jo Flynn, one of the people campaigning against the plans, said it was extraordinary that Merton Council would allow the building of 57 flats when local schools are under such pressure. Already Wimbledon Chase Primary School and Joseph...

• Food waste collection for all home in Wimbledon by end of 2012

  By GoingBackHome

  you need to omit the quotation mark at the end of the...

            

   

  By julie_cross at 12:01 on 17/01/12

  

  Food waste collections will cover all homes in Merton by the end of the year, promise the council. Currently the Merton Council collects food waste from 50,000 properties across the borough, following a successful pilot launched in 2009. After positive feedback from residents benefiting from the collection, the council is to push forward with increasing the provision of this service to the rest of the borough. The remaining 32,650...

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